Linux is pretty nice as Desktop : #In 2024 GNU/Linux is now a pretty nice OS as Desktop environnement you can absolutely runs everything without any issue.Event if you're a gamer, huge progress has been made, thanks in particular to Valve/Steam.On daily basic I use EndeavourOS on my laptop and it is great distro.Everything works fine.And much like a Windows user, I don't care how a particular service is launched, how the Ram is managed, etc. I just want to install/remove programs. Use Wifi, bluetooth devices, web applications, various remote control tools and some markdown / txt editors and have access to a shell.As laptop user, the rest doesn't matter to me.So yeah Linux is definitively a great OS Desktop.And a big mess as Server OS : #Like every other sys/{ops,admin,store}, my company/customers use RHEL or Centos when it is necessary to use a LinuxAnd to be honest after dozens of year of administration; troubleshooting, workarround. I still didn’t understand HOW this factory works.And I've read tons of RedHat documentation / KB.warning SystemD.TLDR : the main problem is SYSTEMD, the secondary problem is the stacking of abstraction layers docker / kubersomething most of the time used of unknown reasons “just because it's modern”.Don’t keep it Simple let’s do something complicated : #Looks like this is the new mantra ! The new “MicroService” way of life that’s generated gigatons of logs impossible to debug when you have issue on production.Another point : everything that systemD manages (i.e. the entire system) makes things complicated.Simple things like device mounting, which you'd think would be handled entirely by /etc/fstab, can be bypassed by systemd options.Complicated stuff = high probably of failure = Complicated issue to troubleshoot in productionIf you 2024 backend/system Product/Owner/Developpeur ... what ever please mark theses words !warning Reminder :In other words : Overall system reliability is therefore the product of the individual reliability of e...
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